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Re:The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Co... by ckosidows on Friday September 18, 2020 @05:52PM (#24522250)
I've started leaving my phone out of my gym time as well. It feels like the right thing to do, but it definitely feels odd or like I'm different somehow. At the gym I go to everyone listens to music while lifting and it's almost surreal to look around while resting between sets to see everyone is dialed into their own little world.

I wonder what gyms looked like in earlier generations (I'm only 27). Did people talk more?

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Re:The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Co... by reaperducer on Friday September 18, 2020 @07:21PM (#24522822)
Did people talk more?

Yes. Especially before the televisions arrived.

Gyms were well-known social hubs. You'd meet people, sometimes even work out business deals, at the gym.

The isolation that technology has brought us has reduced the number of serendipitous human connections we used to make as a species. It has also turned us into an us-verus-them society because we no longer have large circles of friends with varying opinions.

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Re:The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Co... by foxdev on Friday September 18, 2020 @06:19PM (#24522428)
Latter seasons of Highlander tell me they were mostly for people to test their rivals out before a final confrontation in another part of the city in the final act.
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Re:The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Co... by efreak on Saturday September 19, 2020 @12:29PM (#24528578)
According to pokemon, gyms exist only as a place for making your pet fight someone else's pet
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Re:The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Co... by gregrata on Saturday September 19, 2020 @02:29AM (#24525606)
shrug before I used my phone for music, I used my iPod. Before that, my Walkman.

Personal music at the gym is not new or anything specific to phones

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